egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace in a fresh show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence could be seen on the streets of tunisia and the assassination of a prominent opposition figure ignited further outbursts are becoming rest the people blaming the islamist government for betraying the values of the arab spring uprising. protests and catcalls confront cia hopeful john brennan at a confirmation hearing amid fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination

program could take america spied. on russia counts down the twenty fourteen winter olympics games that promise to be the most unique and the most expensive in history and huge overspend already costing a key organizer his job. watching artie's weekly news review welcome to. egypt's opposition groups gearing up for more mass rallies against president mercy some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that mercy up holds the goals of the revolution but ousted hosni mubarak two years ago what's increasingly becoming a similar scenario meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for

a month citing anti islam content was artie's vote true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as unrest continues. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements to see you cheap as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january twenty five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt said complaining that their president had mostly had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of

friday's day and think you see thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building out with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that same couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. but egyptian journalist and blogger while there are so many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by president mostly on his own allies. but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like or. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that barak was not ruthless enough and did not clamp down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're

trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's. no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule we're we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the region did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. egypt wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week wave of violent protests have swept through tunisia for an assassination of a secular opposition leader dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rally is which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police artie's has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist

government for creating and really does state in tunisia and burying democracy now delight is dead but his ideas are not at the museum crees the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the. city with. some crime because billie was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over because your people can musea the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of

shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and you have to continue encik i didn't protest but they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately that day such a street is packed with people the slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party needs. renewal they try to save face but don't have the choice they lost

credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan increasing anxiety over possible for the plate and here's a growing the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger to use ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution and it has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this brain that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook

the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. nationality. we are still in tunis here and she's keeping us up to date with the latest from there about her twitter feed and the most recent post she reports on the political crisis in the country saying the prime minister is still in interest shuffler government despite defiance from his own party is promising to resign if the new cabinet is not approved. president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced his senate confirmation hearing this week while the makers generally gave john brennan an easy ride some members of the public did not the session was interrupted several times

by protesters against brennan the driving force behind the so-called targeted killings operations the rights activists clearly use of drones against suspected terrorists both american and foreign citizens is wonderful these two high number of civilian casualties were off the chairman ordered the protesters to be removed only because questioned brennan on torture and saying a short comings seemed reluctant to challenge him on his own says a scholar and author colin carroll says that even brennan to be useless information set a troubling precedent. and this is a complete denial our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process of more and equal protection of the law and yet with the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so we can be just an executioner we can you know american citizens abroad without

having their court we can say they are yours and we can kill them and the danger of this is when you look at ministrations we get the germans who are the jurors then that means they go anywhere any american citizen. without any draft without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. where john brennan is now up for a closed door hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities where debate is already brewing about what direction he could take the cia was artie's going to chicken explains that. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and

kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as

a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president joe order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote from. well warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war and intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act even apply because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when

you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not worth john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice history teacher consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to strike down. where he was under pressure for planning

a highly expensive attack against those who criticize the bloke on social media but in this hour we take a look at why some say the nation could violate the main principles of european parliament. you can go and look to expand its citizens' internet activity and mobile phone use a misstep could be crucial for national security that's one more after a short break. download the official publication do yourself.

teach me. critics three. three. three. three. three. three. four year media project free media r.t. dot com. welcome back well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of

teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts the government seems unmoved by the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ardent where thousands united in a massive show of anger against the very austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please our loans creditors has been relying on a joint evil international monetary fund since twenty ten. and the angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate and historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever it was sealed after hours of debates and bickering described by some as a bizarre the deal that the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p.'s now planning to block it in a secret vote economist james medway weighs in. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at

writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already present to the e.u. parliament to said he would be able to support the steel in the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group there is said there are likely to support it so it could be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right to talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can we can try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step

out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. some other world headlines in brief for you know the multi-billion dollar missile defense shield that the u.s. is deploying in eastern europe will be able to protect america from possible strikes meanwhile on serious flaws in the system were revealed in studies the defense department prepared for congressional briefing russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders u.s. insists is aimed strictly at venting attacks from iran and north korea. police department says it will reopen investigation to the dismissal of a police officer who's now on the run suspected of murder officials will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his ex colleagues christopher dorner was fired in two thousand and nine is now wanted for allegedly killing three people after posting a manifesto online saying he has forty targets on this.

expected militants have killed five soldiers and wounded one in a roadside attack an island police say a car bomb was detonated as a truck carrying the troops drove by attackers then opened fire on the soldiers security forces off we could be ambushed in the restive south where attacks have claimed more than five thousand lives since two thousand and four. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta knowledge this week for the first time that he backs arming syrian rebels the plan was put forward last summer by senior u.s. politicians but was reportedly rebuffed by president about well russia's envoy to the u.n. told r.t. that despite this washington still bears some responsibility what's going on in syria it's only chickens exclusive interview is coming your way through the program but here's a quick look. but the united states chose to stay clean of the bad guys

at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong about various terrorist groups were coming in that the radical islamists are where we are active and they're there and original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic but i mean do notice this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of enter influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly of the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so the fact they simply say that they themselves are not doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. well web privacy in the u.k.

could be compromised if the government pushes on with its plans to spy on citizens on like a document described as a snoopers charter for the now authorities to track people's internet activity in mobile phone nice guy but explained that the bill was crucial for national security the draft proposal has sparked fears among britons some believe the monitoring of personal data is a step too far jim killer of the open rights group thinks there will be no place on each of the state. snoopers charters a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody on mining and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable

through the information trails you leap we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether there is a way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals. so are people right to think of these proposed laws as a serious invasion of privacy go to our website and have your say what you think would happen if the government manages to push through the so-called snoopers charter. and what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality the countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games and celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch and turn in hand with harsh criticism for spending and missed deadlines one hundred farmer reports from such a. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by

piece the city has been putting its limping dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being refurbished and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall.

picture initially we were assessing the amount of. the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion. in one point two billion has turned into a billion u.s. . well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's olympic committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy to history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stuck. the past to reno was she strikes spectacular skating show it was part of the

countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will host the olympic ice hockey final in the she so tropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the park is them by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up there the resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road to rail in the last spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes thought she itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during

changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams on. time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been i will hold in just six years but the transformation easel most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year and. take. them to experience and anticipation also reached new york this week u.n. chief ban ki moon joined sort of gracious that organizations headquarters just remind those action that was amongst you who want to see this watch the games in person tickets are already on sale and available online.

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wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two guys a report on r.t.e. . battles that have erupted between government troops and is a missed militants in mali's northern city of galle the area was retaken from rebels by french back lot in forces a fortnight ago well here the city was rocked by two suicide bombings well only the

bombers themselves were killed in the attacks there is just violence is feeding fears of a jihadist insurgency on the french led military operation france says its campaign in mali is almost complete of the rebels were pushed from their positions into the desert two weeks ago and on auckland from the paris institute of democracy corp use the money intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa and the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strength from the role on the international stage in particular piece of you know european partners and also the american strict budget plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used the phrase that this was america leading from.